How do I know I understand

a stranger — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:07:32 -0400

How do I know I understand something? Can I prove my knowledge without recreating what I know? I know that I know something when my knowledge feels "right". Therefore, I define quality of my life through feelings. These are based on feelings I get from objects created in past, grouped with other objects, structured into more or less organized architectures, fractals. My memories. Memory is a picture, connected to and through infinite number of other memories, where emotions are inseparable from memory itself. Level of my good feeling depends on depth of memories understood.

Virtual worlds to which I would be connected via not only my sensors (audio,video,touch), but through feelings are one of the frontiers for information providing and spread. Creation of more organized memories seems to be the goal. How close are we and how can we get closer?

Currently, we use technologies to interconnect ourselves with others. From the consciousness mind, fed with information through human body via sensors like eyes, ears, skin and muscles. Subjective picture of objective world surrounding the mind is created by the mind itself.

Human conscious mind depends from the moment of birth on not only existence of body iteslf, but personality as well, which is nothing more, than memories created more or less automatically thanks to existence of outer world. Future and current perception of anything is dictated by memories created while experiencing outer world and inner memories at the same time.

I completely depend on technology I am part of, human body, with existence of my consciousness, with my life. It seems that my logical goal is a creation of never lost consciousness with good feeling about itself and understanding if itself and everything that surrounds it and is part of. How can I optimize this process?

It might be better, if:

* More senses were part of memory creation
* More elegant, beautifull and mind soothing inputs existed
* More organized and optimized information is provided
* Less quantity, more quality

Since human mind can knowingly process only little information for a short period of time before needing rest, information providing should be organized in a way to count on this fact. Maybe, psychology can come up with a way, how mind can be put into a more optimal shape before creating memories. No knowledgable sportsman starts training without warmup.

Helping ourselves and others on the journey is a fantastic quest and we depend on technologies more than we seem to think.

Good luck and thanks for providing good food,

Jakub / jakubsafar@gmail.com

p.s. philosophers might finally provide humanity with few simple, easilly understood facts about life and purpose of it. They already spent few thousand years thinking it over, god damn it. Am I supposed to loose faith about about their aspiration?

Beyond the Copy

mrG — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:58:44 -0500

Kevin Kelly wants to tell you about the Internet, what it is, what it does, and what this means for those folks who base their livelihood on selling things that can be copied, and eight good solid counter-strategies for selling beyond the copy. Sure I've told you about how the CD is dead, how Voice of Fire defeated the publishing industry, how the future of the music industry has nothing much to do with yesterday's songs, but Kevin just puts it all so straight and simple, I had to, well, copy it:

The simplest way I can put it is thus:

When copies are super abundant, they become worthless.

When copies are super abundant, stuff which can't be copied becomes scarce and valuable.

When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied.

Well ... what can't be copied?
[ Better Than Free ]

What indeed. For starters, Kevin lists: Immediacy, Personalization, Interpretation, Authenticity, Accessibility, Embodiment, Patronage and 'Find-ability', all of them directly and succinctly elucidated for the price of a click-through, and to which I would add just one more, the price of 'Presence'

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How do I know I understand

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